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Dissertation Dish
Title: Students as Co-researchers: Using Participatory Action Research to Address College Food Insecurity
Dr. Rachel Brand teaches in the Child Studies department at Santa Clara University. Rachel has over a decade of experience teaching community-engaged learning, critical food systems education, and environmental studies. Her scholarship focuses on participatory action research in higher education, student agency and collective action, humanizing education, and food and environmental justice. Rachel holds an MA in Sociology from the University of California Santa Cruz, and an EdD in International and Multicultural Education from the University of San Francisco.
Moderator: Dr. David Donahue, Professor, School of Education, University of San Francisco
Dissertation Dish
LEAD California, IARSLCE and GivePulse are proud to announce our next speaker:
This session will be offered with simultaneous translation English - Spanish.
Esta sesión se ofrecerá con traducción simultánea inglés - español.
Carmen Monge Hernández, Ph.D. an engaged scholar (extensionista) at the Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica (UNA).
Title: The Latin American University in the Society. Analysis of the Relationship Between University and Community from the Capabilities Approach for Human Development.
Co-Moderated by Maria Avila, an independent consultant, collaborative researcher, and relational organizer. Previously an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work at California State University, Dominguez Hills; & Matias G. Flores a Ph.D. Candidate in Development Sociology at Cornell University and Chair-Elect of the IARSLCE Graduate Student Network.
IARSLCE 2024 Summer Virtual Reboot Camp Part 2
Session 2: Nurturing Student Mental Health through Community-Engaged Pedagogy
Thursday, Jul 25, 2024
4:00-6:00pm ET/1:00-3:00PT/6:00-8:00am Australia
This session will center pedagogical approaches that foster student mental health and wellbeing within community engaged initiatives. Participants will learn about the current state of student mental health, specifically as it intersects with student participation in community engaged learning experiences. Presenters will highlight effective pedagogical practices that promote student well-being, will share examples of how they have implemented these practices in their own learning spaces, and provide space for discussion and practice. We will then collectively explore ways to prioritize student wellbeing and work to adapt suggested practices to our own diverse campus settings.
IARSLCE 2024 Summer Virtual Reboot Camp Part 1
Session 1: Take a Step, Pause & Breathe: Look after Your Mental Health, Recharge & Reflect in a Safe Online Space for All Community Engaged Colleagues
As Community Engagement(CE) facilitators, practitioners and faculty, there is always a lot going on and we are always looking to and after others. Take the time to look after yourselves now. Come and meet other global CE staff, listen to speakers focusing on mindfulness, share stories in small groups, and join in mindfulness activities together around this global online campfire session. Refresh, reconnect and celebrate all things related to CE and to you. The primary intended audience for this online session are CE professionals and/or faculty with any level of experience in the field of higher education CE.
Community Conversations
IARSLCE Members are invited join our monthly Community Conversation, a space to bring your scholarly ideas, problems of practice, and/or desire to connect with colleagues. There's no specific agenda for these gatherings. Rather, the agenda emerges from the priorities and questions that participants bring into the space. It's a great opportunity to have thoughtful discussions and exchange resources.
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Spring Webinar Series Part 3: Trends, gaps, and challenges in doctoral research on community engagement
How are doctoral students researching community engagement? What can the field learn from their experience? Graduate students often struggle to find references and methodologies to frame their research projects. They borrow from other disciplines and fields and must navigate the onto-epistemological tensions of weaving in traditional research methodologies with engaged scholarship principles. Engaged-researchers and graduate students studying community engagement are then challenged to identify methodologies that will advance their community-engaged research projects on their own. This webinar will analyze the trends and gaps in research methods of recent doctoral research (36 dissertations on community engagement published between 2018 and 2022) and build on the challenges and insights from the GradSN-sponsored roundtable at the 2023 IARSLCE Conference. Identified challenges included, epistemological, ontological, and ethical challenges, research methods, institutional and structural challenges, and support mechanisms.
Community Conversations
IARSLCE Members are invited join our monthly Community Conversation, a space to bring your scholarly ideas, problems of practice, and/or desire to connect with colleagues. There's no specific agenda for these gatherings. Rather, the agenda emerges from the priorities and questions that participants bring into the space. It's a great opportunity to have thoughtful discussions and exchange resources.
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Dissertation Dish: Stories from the Field: Black Service-Learning Student Experiences
LEAD California, IARSLCE and GivePulse are proud to announce our next speaker:
Dr. Rochelle Smarr, Director of Experiential Learning at the University of California San Diego
Co-Moderated by Dr. Marisol Morales, Executive Director of the Carnegie Elective Classifications and Dr. Elaine Ikeda, Executive Director of LEAD California.
Our Next Speaker:
Rochelle Smarr, Ed.D., is the Director of Experiential Learning at UC San Diego, where she leads the Experiential Learning team to increase access to and support of engaged learning beyond the classroom through co-curricular activities and academic internship programs. She has held previous roles in the field of community engagement with Students First - New York, City College of New York, Cornell University and University of Pennsylvania. In 2019, she joined California State University, San Marcos as the Assistant Director for Civic Learning and later served as Director of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement before joining UC San Diego in 2023. She is an active member of CUMU and IARSLCE. Serving as the conference journal co-editor for Metropolitan Universities Journal for CUMU, along with hosting a virtual workshop series. In 2023 she was the conference chair for the annual IARSLCE conference in New Orleans, and will resume the role for the upcoming conference in 2024 to be held in San Diego. Click here to learn more about Rochelle.
Abstract:
Title: Stories from the Field: Black Service-Learning Student Experiences
The aim of this research study is to provide a macro picture of Black student's experiences in service-learning through reflective semi-structured interviews (Creswell, 2015; Shah, 2020). To better understand the experiences of Black students' service-learning experiences, a grounded research study was used to highlight themes that emerged from the data collected by participants (Charmaz, 2017; Kimball et al., 2016; Mertler, 2019). Together the conceptual frameworks of transformative learning theory and student voice theory provided a lens into how students make meaning of their service-learning experiences. By sharing their own narrative stories about what they learned (transformative learning theory) and how they learned through their service-learning experiences (student voice theory) (Cook Sather, 2002; Cook- Sather, 2006; Kiely, 2005; Matthews & Dollinger, 2022; Mezirow, 1997; Welch & Plaxton- Moore, 2019).
Spring Webinar Series Part 2: Considering the counterfactual: Demystifying approaches to causal inference for service learning and community engagement research
This presentation demystifies modern approaches to causal inference by exploring the concept of the counterfactual to encourage research on service-learning and community engagement that yields defensible causal conclusions about the effectiveness of engagement practices. While many of these approaches apply higher order statistical and quantitative methods, this presentation will break down the complex concepts to introductory and exploratory levels for an audiences without backgrounds in applied statistical methods. We will root the conversation in the potential outcomes framework, which is at the heart of the modern approach to and understanding of many causal designs.
Participants will be able to identify how applications of the potential outcomes framework can be applied to research projects in SLCE. The presentation will review and clarify the core assumptions of the potential outcomes framework, enabling participants to evaluate how these assumptions may affect a design and plan their research designs accordingly.
Call for Award Nominations deadline
IARSLCE is pleased to announce that nominations are now being accepted for the 2024 IARSLCE Awards. Nominations are due by April 21, 2024 and should be submitted electronically to awards@iarslce.org. Self-nominations are welcome. Complete descriptions of awards and instructions can be found here.
All nominees will be notified of their status in May and award winners will be recognized at the 2024 IARSLCE Conference in San Diego, Oct 2-4. Please help us recognize the outstanding scholars in our field by submitting a nomination!
We also rely on our membership to serve on review committees and select our recipients. If you are willing to serve as a reviewer, please email the IARSLCE Awards Committee at awards@iarslce.org.
Demystifying the Submission and Review Process: A Conversation with IJRSLCE Reviewers, Authors and Editors
Please join members of the IARSLCE Scholarship & Publications committee and editors of the International Journal of Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IJRSLCE) for a candid conversation about the manuscript submission and review process. Learn more about the focus of the IJRSLCE and what makes for a successful submission and review. This session is intended for prospective authors seeking to learn more about what IJRSLCE reviewers and editors are looking for in manuscripts submitted to the journal, as well as for scholar-practitioners wanting to learn more about the review process and how they can contribute.
Panelists:
Becca Berkey serves as the Director of Community-Engaged Teaching & Research and Interim Director of the University Honors Program at Northeastern University. She serves on the Board of Directors and chairs the Practitioner Scholar Community for the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement and is the incoming Associate Editor of IJRSLCE.
Antonio Estudillo is Associate Professor and Interim Chair (Director) of the Teacher Preparation Program at Heritage University. He currently serves on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Hispanic Higher Education and Co-Editor of the Community Partnerships and Impacts section of the International Journal of Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement.
Susan Harris is the Executive Director of the Joint Educational Project at the University of Southern California. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement and is the Senior Co-Editor of the International Journal of Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement.
Morgan Lewing is Associate Professor of Higher Education Leadership at Texas A&M University-Central Texas where he serves as the Department Chair for Educational Leadership & Human Development, Director of Community-Based Learning, and Coordinator for the M.Ed. in Higher Education Leadership. Morgan currently serves as Co-Editor of the International Journal of Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement.
Community Conversations
IARSLCE Members are invited join our monthly Community Conversation, a space to bring your scholarly ideas, problems of practice, and/or desire to connect with colleagues. There's no specific agenda for these gatherings. Rather, the agenda emerges from the priorities and questions that participants bring into the space. It's a great opportunity to have thoughtful discussions and exchange resources.
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Spring Webinar Series Part 1: Empowering Youth as Researchers in a Post-Pandemic World
Involving youth as active participants in research empowers them to find solutions to society’s problems. Through this process, young people transform from being perceived as passive or accepting youth to active, engaged, responsible citizens, building their capacity for active citizenship. Engaging in research also allows young people to build mutually liberatory partnerships that equalize relations between youth and adults. A framework used to engage youth as researchers is called Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR). YPAR enables students to apply a critical lens to their environments, which helps them uncover truths behind structural exploitation, oppression, and opportunities for resistance. The “praxis” component of YPAR calls young people to act along with their adult allies to redress systemic issues impacting their community. This research framework is particularly salient after young people experienced isolation and learning losses during the COVID-19 pandemic. This panel introduces the components of YPAR and brings in perspectives from students who have participated in a summer YPAR program at Merrimack College.
Community Conversations
IARSLCE Members are invited join our monthly Community Conversation, a space to bring your scholarly ideas, problems of practice, and/or desire to connect with colleagues. There's no specific agenda for these gatherings. Rather, the agenda emerges from the priorities and questions that participants bring into the space. It's a great opportunity to have thoughtful discussions and exchange resources.
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Community Conversations
IARSLCE Members are invited join our monthly Community Conversation, a space to bring your scholarly ideas, problems of practice, and/or desire to connect with colleagues. There's no specific agenda for these gatherings. Rather, the agenda emerges from the priorities and questions that participants bring into the space. It's a great opportunity to have thoughtful discussions and exchange resources.
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Community Conversations
IARSLCE Members are invited join our monthly Community Conversation, a space to bring your scholarly ideas, problems of practice, and/or desire to connect with colleagues. There's no specific agenda for these gatherings. Rather, the agenda emerges from the priorities and questions that participants bring into the space. It's a great opportunity to have thoughtful discussions and exchange resources.
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Community Conversations
IARSLCE Members are invited join our monthly Community Conversation on the 4th Wednesday of each month at 12pm PT/3:00pm ET. This is a space to bring your scholarly ideas, problems of practice, and/or desire to connect with colleagues. There's no specific agenda for these gatherings. Rather, the agenda emerges from the priorities and questions that participants bring into the space. It's a great opportunity to have thoughtful discussions and exchange resources.
No need to register in advance, just join us at this link: bit.ly/IARSLCECommConv